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Elkhart Community Schools

Listening Speaking

Reading Writing

Listening Speaking

Reading Writing

Actual Differences in Quantity of Words Heard

In a typical hour, the average child would hear:

Welfare

Working Class

Professional

616 Words

1,251 Words

2,153 Words

85% of ECS’s students fall into the first two categories:

- welfare

- working class

85% of ECS’s students fall into the first two categories:

- welfare

- working class

LanguageLanguage

ReadingReading ThinkingThinking

Reading IS Thinking

“The purpose of reading is understanding.”

Reading IS Thinking

“The purpose of reading is understanding.”

“True comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text. If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a superficial understanding of the text.”Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

“True comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text. If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a superficial understanding of the text.”Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

“Once thought of as the natural result of decoding plus oral language, comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process involving knowledge, experience, thinking and teaching.”(Linda Fielding and P. David Pearson, 1994)

“Once thought of as the natural result of decoding plus oral language, comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process involving knowledge, experience, thinking and teaching.”(Linda Fielding and P. David Pearson, 1994)

Researchers identified strategies that proficient readers use to construct meaning from text.

Pearson, Keene, Harvey, Goudvis, Robb and others summarized these strategies.

Elkhart Community School’s Top 10 Reading Strategies are based

on the work of the above researchers.

Researchers identified strategies that proficient readers use to construct meaning from text.

Pearson, Keene, Harvey, Goudvis, Robb and others summarized these strategies.

Elkhart Community School’s Top 10 Reading Strategies are based

on the work of the above researchers.

7. Make Inferences Then Draw Conclusions

8. Summarize and Synthesize

9. Check Your Understanding

10.Build Fluency

1. Connect to the Text

2. Ask Questions

3. Expand Vocabulary

4. Predict & Prove

5. Sense It

6. Decide What’s Important

Making Connections: A Bridge From the New to the Known

Text to Self

Text to Text

Text to World

Making Connections: A Bridge From the New to the Known

Text to Self

Text to Text

Text to World

Asking Questions: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward

“Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify understanding and forge ahead to make meaning. Asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful reading.”

Harvey and Goudvis

Asking Questions: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward

“Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify understanding and forge ahead to make meaning. Asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful reading.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“The larger the reader’s vocabulary (either oral or print), the easier it is to make sense of the text.”

Report of the National Reading Panel

“The larger the reader’s vocabulary (either oral or print), the easier it is to make sense of the text.”

Report of the National Reading Panel

“Research suggests that when students make predictions their understanding increases and they are more interested in the reading material.”Fielding, Anderson, Pearson, Hanson

“Research suggests that when students make predictions their understanding increases and they are more interested in the reading material.”Fielding, Anderson, Pearson, Hanson

Visualizing: A Tool to Enhance Understanding

“Visualizing is a comprehension strategy that enables readers to make the words on a page real and concrete.”Keene and Zimmerman

Visualizing: A Tool to Enhance Understanding

“Visualizing is a comprehension strategy that enables readers to make the words on a page real and concrete.”Keene and Zimmerman

“Thoughtful readers grasp essential ideas and important information when reading. Readers must differentiate between less important ideas and key ideas that are central to the meaning of the text.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“Thoughtful readers grasp essential ideas and important information when reading. Readers must differentiate between less important ideas and key ideas that are central to the meaning of the text.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“Inferring is at the intersection of taking what is known, garnering clues from the text, and thinking ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“Inferring is at the intersection of taking what is known, garnering clues from the text, and thinking ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come.”

Harvey and Goudvis

The Evolution of Thought

Synthesizing is putting together separate parts into a new whole….a process akin to working a jigsaw puzzle.Harvey and Goudvis

The Evolution of Thought

Synthesizing is putting together separate parts into a new whole….a process akin to working a jigsaw puzzle.Harvey and Goudvis

“If confusion disrupts meaning, readers need to stop and clarify their understanding. Readers may use a variety of strategies to “fix up” comprehension when meaning goes awry.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“If confusion disrupts meaning, readers need to stop and clarify their understanding. Readers may use a variety of strategies to “fix up” comprehension when meaning goes awry.”

Harvey and Goudvis

“Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read.”

Report of the National Reading Panel

“Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read.”

Report of the National Reading Panel

CAUTION!“Although these strategies tend to be introduced independently, readers rarely use these in isolation when reading. These thoughts interact and intersect to help readers make meaning and often occur simultaneously during reading.”

Harvey and Goudvis

CAUTION!“Although these strategies tend to be introduced independently, readers rarely use these in isolation when reading. These thoughts interact and intersect to help readers make meaning and often occur simultaneously during reading.”

Harvey and Goudvis

Reading is

Thinking

Reading is

Thinking

Sense ItSense It

Making Inferences/ Draw Conclusions

Making Inferences/ Draw Conclusions

Connect To Text

Connect To Text

Ask Questions

Ask Questions

Summarize/ SynthesizeSummarize/ Synthesize

Decide What’s Important

Decide What’s Important

Build FluencyBuild Fluency

Expand VocabularyExpand Vocabulary

Predict and Prove

Predict and Prove

Check Understandi

ng

Check Understandi

ng